As I've said this in the past and will probably continue to in the the future:

The Nobel Prize nominations are open to just about any of thousands of public intellectuals, academics, government officials and institutional officials around the world. They are free to nominate just about anyone they want - there is no limit to who they can nominate. Some nominate their own mothers. Hitler has been nominated in 1939 and Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948.

The fact that you were nominated at this stage means absolutely nothing. Nominations are broad and are available to all. Only when you actually get considered by the Nobel Committee that it means something.

RexTalionis:The fact that you were nominated at this stage means absolutely nothing. Nominations are broad and are available to all. Only when you actually get considered by the Nobel Committee that it means something.

RexTalionis:As I've said this in the past and will probably continue to in the the future:

The Nobel Prize nominations are open to just about any of thousands of public intellectuals, academics, government officials and institutional officials around the world. They are free to nominate just about anyone they want - there is no limit to who they can nominate. Some nominate their own mothers. Hitler has been nominated in 1939 and Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948.

The fact that you were nominated at this stage means absolutely nothing. Nominations are broad and are available to all. Only when you actually get considered by the Nobel Committee that it means something.

heck, known terrorists have won a peace prize.but hear me out on thishe used the unspoken might of his country to make the white house back down from dropping bombs into a cityand possibly sending in men to kill other men in the streets

RexTalionis:The fact that you were nominated at this stage means absolutely nothing. Nominations are broad and are available to all. Only when you actually get considered by the Nobel Committee that it means something.

Sure, but it's not like they have a spotless record on picking winner either. Plenty of people overlooked and plenty of WTF? winners.

RexTalionis:As I've said this in the past and will probably continue to in the the future:

The Nobel Prize nominations are open to just about any of thousands of public intellectuals, academics, government officials and institutional officials around the world. They are free to nominate just about anyone they want - there is no limit to who they can nominate. Some nominate their own mothers. Hitler has been nominated in 1939 and Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948.

The fact that you were nominated at this stage means absolutely nothing. Nominations are broad and are available to all. Only when you actually get considered by the Nobel Committee that it means something.

scottydoesntknow:Kinda surprised they didn't mention his crusade against the gays

Or his support for the Pussy Riot sentences, or the persecution of Greenpeace protesters for piracy, or his continuing arms sales to war-torn African nations (let alone Syria), or the arrest and imprisonment of political rivals on "corruption" charges, . . . the list goes on and on.

caddisfly:scottydoesntknow: Kinda surprised they didn't mention his crusade against the gays

Or his support for the Pussy Riot sentences, or the persecution of Greenpeace protesters for piracy, or his continuing arms sales to war-torn African nations (let alone Syria), or the arrest and imprisonment of political rivals on "corruption" charges, . . . the list goes on and on.

All Bad Stuff certainly, but nothing that appears to have ever disqualified anyone else.

/this prize is a little pants.//I need to hurry up and make something of my life so I can turn one down.

I am just going to have to nominate him for the IgNobel to balance out the Nobel Prize the way a Razzie balances out an Oscar*. Be back in a sec.

Done. I nominated Obama as well, for good measure. Hope he manages to prevent a nuclear war with Iran and Congress and Syria and Sarah Palin.

*If I recall correctly, Sandra Bullock won both and was the first person to win both in the same year (and possibly for the same role), as is Halle Berry, who has also won both and unlike most people, had the good manners and taste to show up to accept the awards. She's a real sport and I must watch Catwoman some day, the movie which earned her the Golden Raspberry.

wildcardjack:In chemistry and physics they tend to get it right, honoring people whose contributions were correct and will remain insightful. Economics and peace it's mostly wrong.

Kinda agree, but I think it's long past time that they had a prize for biochemistry. Its a distinct field which is important enough that it deserves independent recognition. Also, they keep getting their biological peanut butter in my chemical chocolate.

He may be a borderline dictator with no respect for individual rights, but you know what? He also really did make a substantial contribution to world peace, and that means he deserves the Nobel far more than a lot of people who have won it before. Also, nothing he has done is objectively worse than drone strikes on funerals or killing 100,000+ people in a war based on a blatant lie, so criticisms from America and its people are never likely to have any importance to anyone outside of America, however factually accurate or cogent they might be. That is George W. Bush's legacy, and it will forever taint Obama as well.